Tag: onlineteaching

In my post last Saturday on eLearning Myths a Decade Later, Sue Waters in Australia asked a good question: While I first taught online at the University of Nebraska in 1995 (pre-LMS’s), I have been teaching continuously online since 2001. So I thought I would look back 18 years and 8 years, and compare my… Read more Changes in Two Decades of Online Teaching

In the 2019 Edublog challenge, yesterday we were to update an old post. I am catching up today, but I thought it might be interesting to go back and look at a post I did almost 11 years ago…in my first month of blogging. I posted “eLearning Myths” on February 16, 2008 while I was… Read more eLearning Myths a Decade Later

Today is the start of my Northeastern class EDU-6323 – Technology as a Medium for Learning. It also provided an interesting lesson in edtech! I spent several weeks in December setting up the course, which I have taught before…shifting some readings, condensing a week on video and adding a week on AR/VR, and re-recording my… Read more Thanks Wayback

Last week, my Merrimack students were each exploring a different digital tool and reporting on it in their blogs. You can find their blogs here. Some I was familiar with, like Trell0, Flipboard, Slack and Canvas. Others were new to me, including Genially, Adobe Spark, and Google Keep. Between the posts and the comments, we… Read more Interesting Week on Digital Tools

My course – Social Media and Beyond (EDU-6333) for Northeastern University has just finished its first week. I enjoy this course because of the added engagement through social media…primarily Twitter. Only 10 students this term (I am used to double that) – and over the first week, they did well, sending 72 tweets to the… Read more The Social Media Question Mark

I made some minor changes to my posted teaching philosophy two years ago and last year…but it really had not been updated since 2014…and as we all know, the world of 2018 is markedly different from the world of 2014. The web now is not as friendly as it once was, and “truth” now carries… Read more Updating My Teaching Philosophy

I unplugged a bit this past week. My wife and I were celebrating our 46th wedding anniversary with a trip through western Pennsylvania, visiting two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses – Kentuck Knob and FallingWater. Both houses were interesting in that they pushed the boundaries of what typical houses were. One of Wright’s core beliefs… Read more Teaching Over the Waterfall

I am … and have always been… an optimist. I am a glass half full kind of person. So I tend to see the opportunities more than the perils. Alas, now there is Facebook…. Over the past few weeks, a firestorm has erupted over news that Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on… Read more My Cracked Rose Colored Glasses

Two days ago, Faculty Focus posted an excellent article on Is My Teaching Learning Centered?. One aspect of this post that really resonated with me was that it was question-driven. My good friend Enoch Hale has said in the past that: “…the questions we ask drive the thinking we do. Conversely, the questions we fail… Read more Learning Centered Questions for ELearning Design

Monty Jones at VCU emailed several of us today with an interesting thought query from Brianne Adams: What are the seminal texts in online education? Given how fast the field has evolved, are there any? I have been evolved with online education for two decades, and along the way, there were books that had a… Read more Seminal Books on Online Learning

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I am Britt Watwood, an online teacher recently retired from Northeastern's Center For Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research. My passions are networked learning and using web technology for learning. I currently teach graduate courses at Northeastern University and Creighton University.
DISCLAIMER: I am a product of my personal learning network and my thoughts are impacted by the many people locally and virtually with whom I have contact. However, the views expressed here in this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions for whom I teach.

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